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luck. today violence is once again fled up the phone these are the images. from the streets of canada the same operation so. lucky. everywhere you look in southern louisiana there is water rivers creeks. the gulf of mexico the mississippi river. because of this abundance today everyone. has a. history.

of. louisiana. in some ways a dream. if you have a little. within ten minutes you can be away from it all you can be in the wilderness. ok if some fish for supper he can watch the birds to your heart and say that's the

beauty you know you can own a little place like this where i can have my own little swamp and on the wildlife it's a really is a magic place to live. in the space of about five to seven thousand years all of coastal louisiana was built through the mississippi river every year the river delivered tons of sediment is slowly but surely built out to the sea creating a very biologically diverse ecosystem. where. there. are very wide and loads coastal flood plain created by the mississippi became an ideal place for people to settle because of the fisheries animals and so on and also navigation and

trade because of this big river. well unfortunately because of the nature of the land and the terrain being close to sea level. flooding is a big issue. so the europeans who came in from from the western part of europe. had grown up if you will build a levee systems to think about the levee systems in the netherlands so we had the birth of new orleans and i live in a system associated with it and their system continued to expand utilizing the exist teen natural banks or levees of the river system until nine hundred twenty seven in one hundred twenty seven we had a major flood on the mississippi river where a large number of these levee systems were breached huge sections of louisiana were

flooded and thereafter congress passed the nine hundred twenty seven flood control that they had called for control of the mississippi river and control of the flooding. nine hundred sixty five hurricane betsy came a category four storm and then flooded launch of new orleans. from there we started to develop the hurricane levee system so we had a river levee system and now we will build the and i came protection system there immediately started to interfere with the natural man building capabilities of the mississippi river. and so i probably beneficial in the physical

sings they are our number one protection. and we destroyed. katrina to put this all in perspective. was was barely a category three storm after landfall. missed new orleans thirty five miles new orleans was on the weak side new orleans the new human experience are if a force winds and yet we destroyed a major american city and twenty four ounce. the in the air. in the middle of a.

drain. millions around the world have heard hurricane katrina stories of death survival and rebirth. but has received far less attention is how the storm's devastation was intertwined with a handful of questionable decisions made in recent years across southern louisiana . in two thousand and five ivor was named director of the louisiana state university hurricane center. louisiana chose him to lead its investigation into the levee failures during hurricane katrina. didn't take me very long to realize that there was one agency to blame and i was a call vention s.

for shoddy shoddy engineering. after i've ever published his official levy report his university contract was terminated. before we both were living. in the superhero trade schools before we cut out everything with oil and gas taxes and else we used to have very extensive cypress swamps all the way along the coasts . cities like new orleans used to have almost thirty miles of moss. you can knock the surge down and maybe as much as six feet within one mile of healthy sightless where.

protecting the museum is coastline and its people in the future will require some difficult choices coastal erosion must. remain in cyprus swamps and must be protected the mississippi river may have to be diverted again. we cannot save every single community we can build a wall of town across louisiana. wetlands protect the levees the levees protect.

coastline is quickly disappearing at a rate of a football field every thirty minutes or about twenty five square miles every year . by two thousand and fifty it is predicted that another seven hundred square miles will be lost. what people think of the swamp if think a lot an awful

a mother dirty for by the insects some skeeters and on and then you know. the from his you probably would have more live around you in the base and then proceeds from anywhere north america. would be here like twenty three years. i came here by accident i was in love with the amazon rain forest and i wanted to get used to the heat and mosquitoes the frog wolli with name has now is on it's like enthusiast and i wanted to swap a standard form once the thought of all. the austere. fellow with a short. never went to the amazon. that's

a lot of bases one performing in a. more than forty percent of the us coastal wetlands in southern louisiana is one of the on the american visas or was it is so much life in. the. name of another how are a hundred species of feast and trophies knew how if one is preserved words that even the tough love based on the many avenger would migrate through his woodlands and the move onto the rest of the country so that he could for every one of them. if you destroy decided that serious peace with birds would be going to be. a significant percentage or what proportion of the birds used these a long time ago that in the life cycle. from birth we had raids in other days a little marsh that's awful aves in these many trees some straw stray more by the worse in the everglades way more important for the nation as

a rebirth allegedly it's. you know. who's. going to want to watch it be like the evils isn't real by the trees and the need for that what it will but all of whose job it is actually told us all the models of all to make a good will plant trees and missed the whole. thing . since nineteen twenty one and tens of thousands of miles of canals that can cut

through the wetlands to extract oil and natural gas. is manmade oil and gas canals have reshaped southern louisiana as wetlands and contribute to the rapid erosion washing more land out to sea. this used to be small but he used to be smart right he always telling one out nice and out. for several years again when undercover spying on lumber nodes and following logging trucks. he infiltrated cutting sites and confronted the large retail chains selling cypress welch illegally. and.

this time logan this office option is going to focus more on the of the folks. i want than they were throwing them away to forty thousand acres a year between the year two thousand and sixty low eighty thousand acres that's one tenth of all the stuff the force in question was you. know they got serious and c.n.n. you know talk about illegal logging in brazil you know illegal logging is happened here at the states and the discovery and look under the phrases you go to a country like brazil and they're poor people trying to make a living. there's no law to really loose in the world leading roles thought into that because they come across to subscribe to soul creek. people who go to wal-mart only wallows in the with one of their we have a florida address and they would say made for environmentally. and actually was going to lose enough in credit cards for swamp will never come back so they've lost

their lives or systems and saw a moment of harvest. of. illegal logging operations have stolen tens of thousands of acres of chinese from soreness coast. cutting down the natural barriers that once helped protect the coast from devastating storm surges and hurricanes. in the. the companies they like and. the flow are the basis. for months looking for those kind of violations. right now we only do have to do them once and flew the world. renewed beyond the group the stunning thing that all those books.

you've been drilling off the coast of louisiana for a number of years any oil spills to worry about you know that's one of the great unwritten success stories after katrina and rita is awful storm and no major spills . and she says three days after hurricane katrina and september of two thousand and five. coming across from mexico. and they just spill is considered anything over one hundred thousand. after the two thousand and five hurricane season the department of environmental quality estimated that at least nine million gallons of oil spilled across the

state and in the gulf. oil spills have been considered business as usual in the museum and for a long time. the father ship company. did the model itself. well it's a good. thing to chill out i just want to positively want it. yet july twenty third there was a down tanker that ran into a wayward arch that the tanker pierced the barge basically cut it in half while was covering the river from bank to bank for miles this isn't a uncommon occurrence for us with the willing gas industry that we have here's

a predominate environmental factor. to secure rivers uses a drinking source for metropolitan new orleans and for points south of here so immediately we shut down those water intakes and started the process of bringing in drinking water for the residents of this area after a couple of days we found a loyal almost all the way to venice louisiana which is. eighty miles from here.

thus it was a blessing. on their nets on their of their lives the resources that they harvest. we pray that they will have a safe and abundant harvest here after. the fishing was ever tamed and fishing is the way of life you know fishing is a source of food fishery is the industry it was only natural that they wouldn't have work on the resource and the men who do the work and

harvest the resource. are in the try that. of an industry here. between all the different conflicting interests the art includes the natural gas in there's no so many conflicting groups. traditionally have the the big old fisherman there one incident in the first aroused in the opening of the slaughter fisherman is interested in the bayous the wetlands spa lakes. craft can function. and then of course the economic factors that have taken their toll. the globalization of the economy

the import of practically everything from overseas countries. there's no way that people here in louisiana can compete you know with wages against such such mega size competition. the cost of running a simple family business and was the family visits small fisherman with his wife and his children so they can compete against these sheinkopf for asians that you know can produce phenomenal amounts pay almost no wages. it's hard life has taken a stall in the family life here it's often the land sized it's a harsh way to make a living you know fighting the elements to see is the way of the wins that's all that we have addressed in the fleet to involve god's help to carry through the hard

times in a challenging time. and it will. bring . a modest boat and they approach someone down to the ship has just got off to do. the first hour fishing up a straw down on a boat would move follows brought up and one thousand seven to seven and i was eighteen years old when on a boat eighteen days from him again the czech afford to spend her dollars on doubles rich eighteen years old got a check for eighteen days and got forty eight hundred dollars you know it's a good day you know a man owes a lot of money and i stuff but i love those like the challenger tommy left to go

out those as a child to see that there's more from the net of those. who don't want no hand dolls we just want to make honestly i. like knowing that one of our comments somebody is going to eat the best protein. that's beautiful i know which i actually do know i don't make and usually kill people i just make food to feed we just moved on fish and i guess it was in a balloon so i thought people is in a boat it's a disease. of

born here raised in morgan city and when my husband i were married we moved to new iberia. this is just the kind of people there are and what we see here they live for the life they have here they're very happy living here they've lived here for generations whatever is negative they deal with it may just move far. they live off the land they hire they fish they eat the sci fi i wouldn't live anywhere else. this is a wonderful place to live it's a wonderful place to raise your family. other than getting shot up. over time my office would get broken into and they would steal the fax machine they would steal. food out of the kitchen and sheriffs would tell me you know it's just

somebody's caressingly well. summer of two thousand and six my husband was working out in the flower bed my house was around the corner and he could see in the clinical up and down the road and i was trying to get out a bunch of things because i was going to go to d.c. and give a presentation on the impacts of the hurricane and you saw them come back and the guy pulled the gun out the window on the passenger side and she took my off. the shelf stopped kong before they even came to us the passenger was gone the gun was gone and we couldn't find out who the driver was because that would violate his rights. a charter here broadcasting live from washington d.c. coming up today on the big picture.

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